Pig ears and jellyfish!

In honor of Chinese New Year, we went to a party where everyone had to bring an authentic Chinese dish.  Well on the RSVPs, everyone responded with things like Kung Pao chicken, stir fry, and even chicken satay (??).  So Ruch wanted to be actually authentic and decided to make this dish.

Pig Ears pre-cooking

Boiled in lots of random spices for a couple hours

Sliced into thin strips. That white in the middle is cartilage.

There aren't prep pictures of the rest of the process but the salad is made from strips of jellyfish, cabbage, carrots, and cucumbers which were all quickly cooked in a pan. The pigs ear slices were dredged in flour and shallow fried and put on top of the salad. The salad had a delicious dressing made from soy sauce, sriracha, seasome seeds, and a bunch of other random junk that R threw in.

You can see the other nonauthentic dishes in the back :)

All in all, I was surprised how decent the dish was. The salad with dressing was awesome! The pig ears were slightly weird, an odd texture but mostly just tasted like pork. We are taking a trip to China in a couple weeks so this was a great way to whet our appetite. Stay tuned for those food adventures as I'm sure there will be plenty!